(May 1, 2010)
Drawn & Quarterly,
2010 Series
Published in English
(Canada)
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 2010-05-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Drawn & Quarterly
- ISBN
-
978-1-77046-022-5
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- colour cover; colour interior
- Dimensions
- standard Modern Age US
- Paper Stock
- glossy cover
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- one-shot
Issue Notes
Cover title is slightly different, "Yow! Drawn & Quarterly Presents A 'John Stanley Library' Grab-Bag" with the "Free Comic Book Day" brand/logo at the bottom of the cover.
Nancy and Oona Goosepimple's Uncle Oaf
Nancy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thanks for asking me to come over and eat some of your granny's cookies, Oona, but I just had dinner and I'm full up to here!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Nancy; Oona Goosepimple; Uncle Eek; Uncle Oaf; Granny Goosepimple
- Synopsis
- Nancy stops over to Oona's house and has a cookie, whereupon she falls asleep and dreams of a giant in Oona's basement that sleeps after eating cookies.
- Reprints
-
from Nancy (Dell, 1957 series) #170 (September 1959)
-
Tub's Mustache
Marge's Tubby / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tubbeeee! Time to get up!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Tubby Tompkins; Mrs. Tompkins; Miss Feeny; Mr. Ernest; Gloria Darling
- Synopsis
- Tubby dreams he grows a real mustache and the whole town is trying to cut it off.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Tubby (Dell, 1953 series) #9 (July-September 1954)
-
Arts and Crafts
Judy Junior / comic story / 3.5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bang! Bang! Bang!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Judy Junior; Jimmy Fuzzi
- Synopsis
- Judy bullies her way into Jimmy's house, uses his art supplies, and takes home a self-described masterpiece.
- Reprints
- from Thirteen (Dell, 1962 series) #8 (August - October 1963)
-
A Chase of Nerves
Nancy / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- M-maybe I shouldn't have taken this way home... that tough Spike lives around here
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Nancy; Spike; Fritzi Ritz
- Synopsis
- Spike chases Nancy through all sorts of difficulties, to return Nancy's lost purse.
- Reprints
- from Nancy (Dell, 1957 series) #168 (July 1959)
-
Indexer Notes
Last page includes a D+Q Pledge To Parents, modeled to look like the old Dell Pledge To Parents.
The Thing
Melvin Monster / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mummy! Look what followed me home-!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Melvin Monster; Mummy; Baddy; Thing
- Synopsis
- Melvin brings home a thing that sticks to mean people, and his father can't get rid of it.
- Reprints
- from Melvin Monster (Dell, 1965 series) #6 (January 1967), #6 (January 1967)
-
A Bad Case of Squeebles
Choo-Choo Charlie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nukka, nukka, nukka-
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Choo-Choo Charley; Charlie's friend
- Synopsis
- Charlie drives his engine into a pond to eliminate some squeebles, but comes out with an alligator and a sneezing engine instead.
- Reprints
- from Choo Choo Charlie (Western, 1969 series) #1 (December 1969)
-
Dear Mr. Stanley
Dear Mr. Stanley / letters page / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Nancy; Tubby Tompkins; Melvin Monster
- Synopsis
- Art and letters from fans Emily Dorkin, Hollis Crane, Andalucia Crane, and Georgina Devlin.
Indexer Notes
inside back cover
A Loving Time Capsule of Mid-Century Canadiana, Designed By Seth!
Nipper / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Yow!]
-
1.
Moomin
Moomin -
2.
Nancy and Oona Goosepimple's Uncle Oaf
Nancy -
3.
Tub's Mustache
Marge's Tubby -
4.
Arts and Crafts
Judy Junior -
5.
Who Will Comfort Toffle?
Moomin -
6.
A Chase of Nerves
Nancy -
7.
The Thing
Melvin Monster -
8.
A Bad Case of Squeebles
Choo-Choo Charlie -
9.
Dear Mr. Stanley
Dear Mr. Stanley -
10.
A Loving Time Capsule of Mid-Century Canadiana, Designed By Seth!
Nipper -
11.
Meet Tubby Tompkins
Tubby
This issue was modified by
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Derek Reinhard
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.